Lauren Warnecke

Lauren Warnecke has combined her experience as a dancer, her graduate degree from UIC and her knowledge as a personal trainer to forge a career as a dance journalist and advocate for dance education and dancer health.

For her master’s degree in kinesiology, Warnecke studied the incidence and treatment of injuries sustained by professional dancers. She developed a website for the dance community, ArtIntercepts.org, to promote “evidence-based practices in training and performance.”

A spokesperson for the dance community in Chicago, she is a regular contributor to Windy City Times, SeeChicagoDance.com and Chicago Magazine. Her work appears in online publications such as Huffington Post.

Warnecke is a certified personal trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine, with specialty certificates in functional training and sports performance and weightlifting.